FESTIVAL NEWS: LIFE top line-up of more than 200 bands at Humber Street Sesh 5th August 2017

On Saturday 5th August 2017 Hull will stage the country’s biggest festival for unsigned and emerging musical talent as the Humber Street Sesh returns with a radically expanded UK line-up as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. 200 artists will perform in a spectacular celebration of the excellence and diversity of UK musicians and artists, providing a powerful platform for home-grown creative brilliance

Headlining the festival and fresh from a storming performance at Radio One’s Big Weekend and SXSW is Hull’s own politically charged punk noisemakers band LIFE. Other Hull exports include Jack Conman, a rising star on the UK music scene known for his acoustic guitar and soulful melodies, indie quartet Fronteers and one of the biggest selling and hottest emerging guitar bands across the country right now, King No-One.

The festival which captures the heart and soul of the city, features a line up of 200 bands performing on 20 stages, spread out around Hull Marina. The Sesh, founded by Mark Page, has always given a platform for local bands and artists, but in this Hull 2017 City of Culture year is branching out to welcome bands from across the UK, giving them the opportunity to play to crowds numbering up to 30,000.

Also performing are La Bete Blooms, Vulgarians, Counting Coins, Endoflevelbaddie, Fonda 500, Black Delta Movement and DJ James Orvis who recently performed at John Grant’s North Atlantic Flux, and Revenu who appeared as part of The Basil Kirchin Story.

The Hubbards, Chiedu Oraka, Bud Sugar, Chiedu Oraka and Emily Moulton who are also set to perform at The Sesh, will take to the stage before the August Festival as part of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything an anarchic theatrical epic which mixes bold new writing by Luke Barnes with original live music from James Frewer. The piece from award-winning Hull theatre company Middle Child opens at The Welly Club on Tuesday 6 June and runs until Saturday 17 June.

The man responsible for this spectacular evolution is Sesh founder Mark Page.

Mak said: “What’s been achieved off the back of a long-standing original live music night is quite incredible.

“In the last five years, we’ve captivated the heart and soul of the city, provided a powerful platform for the best emerging bands and acts from the region and helped create a sense of cultural wellbeing in Hull.

“This year, in line with Hull 2017, we have invited some special friends to join us as we showcase the brilliance of our City of Culture. This is our year in the spotlight, and Humber Street Sesh will truly shine this August.”

LIFE frontman Mez Green who holds the festival close to his heart said: “It’s an honour to headline what we consider the most exciting and vital Hull event.

“The Sesh isn’t just a celebration of music but it’s a celebration of the diverse and powerful community we have in our city of culture! We can’t wait.”

With music and community at the heart of the festival, they’ll also be an engaging arts programme featuring street art, graffiti, photo exhibitions and installations.

There will also be a designated family area with a youth stage, skate park, kids scrapstore and face painting with under-12s invited along for free.

Also on site among celebrated street food stalls and markets, there will be a funfair, silent disco and a 50’s & 60’s funk & soul vinyl experience courtesy of Original Brew.

Humber Street Sesh is in its sixth year after growing from a weekly music night in Hull to one of the country’s most unique and exciting festivals.

Such is its growing reputation, Humber Street Sesh was shortlisted in the Best Medium Sized Festival and the Best Metropolitan Festival categories at the high-profile UK Festival Awards last year.

The nomadic duo tAngerinecAt was formed in 2008 in Ukraine as a collaboration between Ukrainian Eugene Purpurovsky and English Paul Chilton. Inspired by their studies, travels and music experiences in remote parts of the Carpathian Mountains, their music has also absorbed different forms of Ukrainian and Soviet counterculture; the classical music skills, composition, poetry, acting, directing and stage experience of Eugene since 1990 as well as influences from EDM, drone, blues, metal, prog-rock and more.

They have four independently released, successfully selling albums that have had airplay on BBC 2, BBC 3 and BBC 6. The band has toured internationally in Ukraine, UK and Russia from 2010 and since relocating to UK in 2016 have quickly gained momentum, intensively touring with headline shows all over UK.

Based on personal experience, themes of resistance are repeated throughout their new album Many Kettles, and also in the form of images and symbols that help you to survive.

“tAngerinecAt brought not just synth to the table, but a whole range of physical, classical instruments into the mix – most noticeably their use of the hurdy-gurdy, to make their music the deep notes of severe doom and dread that gave it the feeling of a rave in a mausoleum…”- Ben Knight, LEFTLION

“Watch out for: tAngerinecAt… this is some of the most powerful music I have heard in a long time…” – LOUDER THAN WAR

“I’ve never seen someone play a hurdy-gurdy so punk…” – DEVIL’S DYKE NETWORK

LOLA THE COSMIC GETAWAY

Lola the Cosmic Getaway are a musical duo formed by lead vocalist, Louise Connor.

Featuring ambient guitars, pulsing synths and rhythmic grooves along with Louise’s vocal comsicality, L CG aim to submerge the listener into a world of sound bordering on the realms of familiarity based around the unfamiliar sounds of outer-space.

YORKSHIRE VS ESSEX

Debut in Hull! Debut in Yorkshire! Formed in London in 2015, Simon Yorkshire (singer and trombonist), Chris Essex (bassist/effects monger) and Iain Hounslow (flutist/guitarist/synthist) narrate songs from fictional toymakers to Sheffield murderers…with cheeky slices of embellishment. YVE are Influenced by the likes of Robert Wyatt, Current 93, Scott Walker, Miles Davis, Nick Cave, The Residents, Bjork, Death Grips and Iannis Xenakis – without sounding much like any of them…

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Brand new raw blues project from local singer Pat Fulgoni, John Hogg – guitars, Billy Lockwood – drums, Keira Kenworthy – bass. Debut gig blew the roof off Marsh Blues Club this summer. “Pat Fulgoni could sing a pearl from its oyster” said US magazine Billboard. “Deleriously flowing soul” says DJ Mag. The 4 piece will be singing tunes from the blues album “Pat Fulgoni live in Prague” and many more classics ranging from BB King to Ray Charles to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Soul, blues and psychedelic rock! www.facebook.com/patfulgoniofficial

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Under The Influence presents Clean Cut

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Under The Influence presents Clean Cut Kid support

Doors 8 pm

£12 from seetickets and Hull Box Office

Clean Cut Kid deliver infectious ear-worm indie-pop melodies with autobiographical lyrics, once described as “soulful pop ballads, washed in Mersey water”. Their influences range from the current sounds of Arcade Fire and St. Vincent to legends like Bowie and Talking Heads.

Having toured relentlessly for three years, alongside recording their debut album with numerous producers and in numerous studios, Clean Cut Kid decided to take a 10 month break from touring to record new music. On Wednesday 12th September, the band will mark their return with new single ‘Emily,’ taken from their upcoming ‘Painkiller’ EP out 22nd October.

The first thing the band did was head back to their native Liverpool, where they rented a pod in an old shipping factory in the Baltic Triangle area of the city, and filled it with vintage recording equipment. Once that was fully set up, they locked themselves away for months on end, getting everything up to the standard they wanted.

Mike Halls (lead singer/guitarist) was adamant that these new songs would be more personal to Clean Cut Kid, both in the themes they cover, but also to the band as a whole. Explaining this, Mike says: “I want to write about things in my life, what we’re feeling, whether they be sad or joyous. The ultimate thing is to take the deepest emotions and work it in to a message that isn’t miserable.”

Written, recorded and engineered entirely by the band, ‘Emily’ finds Clean Cut Kid deviating from their indie-pop sound of first album Felt – released last year – in to a more lo-fi, American East Coast sound, complete with 70s-inspired, fuzz guitar lines, harmonic backing vocals, a stand-alone verse from Evelyn Halls (keys) and thudding drums, with echoes of Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and Phoebe Bridgers.

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SCREAMING TARTS PRESENTS… Tony Wright (Terrorvision) support.

Doors 8 pm

£11 BF from seetickets

When he’s not touring with Braford 90’s hit makers Terrorvision, Tony Wright writes, records and tours under his own name with a setlist made up of songs he has written on his acoustic guitar – some upbeat, some melancholic, but all thought-provoking.

To say Tony is a busy man would be an understatement. In addition to his three albums with his post-Terrorvision band ‘LaikaDog’, he has now released two solo albums to date with a third one in the works. ‘Thoughts ’n’ All’ is just Tony and his acoustic guitar. The follow up, ‘Walnut Dash’, released last year brought the evolution of Tony with his acoustic guitar and a full band.

Expect to hear tracks from his solo back catalogue along with some very familiar and reimagined Terrorvision classics.

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The Broken Orchestra are a four piece trip-hop act formed in Hull, UK in 2010 by production duo Pat Dooner and Carl Conway-Davis. Influenced by Hip-Hop, Jazz and Soul, the duo collaborated with various musicians, chopping and looping their performances to create tracks consisting of vocals, drums, guitar, bass, Rhodes piano and various samples and textures.

Their debut album ‘Shibui’ was initially released in Japan via ‘P Vine Records’, subsequently a worldwide release followed via Canadian label, ‘Phonosaurus Records’. ‘Shibui’ and later releases received airplay worldwide with regular airplay in the UK via BBC 6Music and BBC Radio 1. The first single ‘Over and Over’ was also featured on a Café Del Mar compilation. To add to the band’s uniqueness, their success was achieved without any live performances.

In 2017, the duo recruited guitarist Tom Kay and vocalist Emily Render to take The Broken Orchestra on the road. The band played a sold out debut show in their hometown of Hull in August 2017 followed by various other performances around the UK. ��The Broken Orchestra’s latest recording, the ‘Blinded EP’ was released on their own label ‘A Bridge Too Far Recordings’ in March 2018, The release was supported by a UK summer tour which saw them perform at Band On The Wall in Manchester, Hoochie Coochie in Newcastle, The Hi-Fi Club in Leeds and the BBC Introducing stage at Humber Street Sesh of which a crowd of over 30,000 attended.

The band will support Jazz legend and four-time Grammy Award winner Larry Carlton in October 2018 before taking a short break to record their second full- length album which is scheduled for release in 2019.

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53 Degrees North music industry conference is coming to Goole for a day of interactive workshops, panels and performances. Special guests and industry professionals will be on hand offering practical

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53 Degrees North music industry conference is coming to Goole for a day of interactive workshops, panels and performances. Special guests and industry professionals will be on hand offering practical workshops and discussions in music photography and journalism, lighting and sound, DIY music releasing and event management. The day will culminate in a live show featuring emerging local talent and guest artists. There will also be a chance to network with other musicians and industry professionals. Suitable for age 16

WORKSHOP 1-3pm

DIY Magazine’s Emma Swann will also be hosting a workshop on music journalism and photography to help up-and-coming musicians to refine their media presence.

PANEL 3.30-5.30pm

A specially selected panel of industry experts will be on hand to discuss innovations and opportunities in the sector, with Warren Records/53 Degrees North’s Stewart Baxter, BBC Introducing’s Alan Raw and streaming music royalties platform KYCKER.

PLATFORM 7pm

The day concludes with live performances from Junction’s School of Rock and Tuesday Night Music Club, a solo acoustic performance by Joe Hodgson from Sandra’s Wedding, spoken word artist Jodie Langford, Hull-based rapper Cameo and rock-band FINNO.

Tickets for the event are free, but places are limited for both the workshop and the panel discussion. Please register for each event you plan to attend. Conference attendees do not need to purchase tickets for the 53 Degrees North Platform as these are included in the registration.

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Due to popular demand, and having sold out “Black Kes: A Night With Queen” on the 30th, Black Kes will be doing it all again the day

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Due to popular demand, and having sold out “Black Kes: A Night With Queen” on the 30th, Black Kes will be doing it all again the day after! A selection of Queen’s greatest hits in a style you’ve never heard before.

This will be a matinee performance and family friendly.

Black Kes have also decided to give all money from ticket sales to a great charity, Hey Mind, in memory of Keith Flint.

It will cost only £4.00 per adult with accompanied kids going free. Again all door revenue will go a great local mental health charity.